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Obituaries topic in Brian’s seminar, and wonderful to see Brian in his fluently Italian element. My wife and I and our young son were accommodated in the magnificent Certosa di Pontignano, which felt magical, and Brian and Giovanna were the most wonderful of hosts at their lovely villa (also described as an ancient farmhouse) in the Tuscan countryside outside Siena. I knew Giovanna independently of knowing Brian from when she spent the academic year 1978-79 in Oxford after she had just completed her Florence doctorate (with distinction). In 2014 Giovanna invited me to give some lectures in her seminar in Bologna. At the end of that visit Giovanna took me to see Brian, who was in hospital with a broken hip. He was then 87, and suffered from its effects for the remaining five years. I want to pay tribute to Giovanna both for her brilliance as a philosophical logician and for the kind generosity and patience with which she looked after Brian in his years of debility. In those summers Brian came to St Luke’s Hospital in Oxford to be near members of his family and to give Giovanna some respite from looking after him, and in the first year also for surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital. It was sad to see Brian needing to be cared for, but otherwise he was completely himself, and it was such a pleasure to be able to go up Headington Hill to visit him, and sometimes for him to come to us at home. Conversation with Brian was a complete delight, offering panoramas of ideas and events and people, all viewed with wry good humour and wit. Brian McGuinness was for decades the world’s leading authority on the life of Wittgenstein and its relationship with his philosophy. He has left a huge legacy of published work which lives on, and he has donated his invaluable archive of the research material he gathered to the Brenner Archive at the University of Innsbruck (its online catalogue runs to 46 pages), so other scholars can now build on it. What is irretrievably lost is the vast network of knowledge and insight that Brian held in mind, a resource he generously shared with everyone who asked. He was an enormously distinguished colleague and a dear friend. Daniel Isaacson COLIN MORRIS Colin Morris, a former undergraduate and Honorary Fellow of the College, died peacefully on 18 September, 2021, aged 93. Colin was born in Kingston-upon-Hull, the son of Harry and Kitty Morris. His father, a commercial traveller, died when Colin was 11 and he was then brought up by his mother, a tailoress, to whom Colin’s first book is fittingly dedicated. In 1938, at the age of 118 The Queen’s College | College Record 2022
nine, he won a scholarship to Hymers College, Hull and in 1944 he was awarded a Hastings scholarship at Queen’s where he read Modern History, and where he was taught by another distinguished medievalist, John Prestwich. On graduating with a first-class degree in 1947, he spent 13 months in the ranks on Army National Service, where he learnt a fundamental transferable skill, typing! He had always intended to enter the Church and he returned to Queen’s to read for a second BA degree in Theology, graduating, again with a first, in 1951. In 1952 he moved to Lincoln Theological College, a college in the Liberal Catholic tradition, where he was ordained deacon in 1953. Later that year he was elected Fellow in Medieval History and Chaplain at Pembroke College, and ordained priest. He remained at Pembroke for 16 years during which time he took his place in an outstanding group of medievalists, including Richard Hunt, John Prestwich, Beryl Smalley, Richard Southern, and Michael Wallace-Haddrill, among many others. Colin’s training in both History and Theology undoubtedly contributed to the nuanced sensitivity of his research, and it was appropriate that much of his earliest published work was focussed on the medieval diocese of Lincoln, and that its theological college could in some sense be seen as successor to the twelfth-century cathedral school, as significant an intellectual centre as was contemporary Oxford! As chaplain, Colin is remembered for his thoughtful and ecumenical ministry, and for promoting outreach, such as supporting annual camping trips for borstal boys: in the course of one tent inspection a burglar’s kit was slipped into his hand. This became a key element of the Morris family tool-kit! Obituaries In 1956 Colin married Brenda Gale (who has also had a distinguished career, as a psychiatrist), his teenage sweetheart, and they lived happily in College with their young family (who would occasionally break unannounced into his tutorials!). Immediately after serving as Vicegerent of Pembroke during an interregnum, a role he fulfilled with characteristic good-natured efficiency (not least at a time of student unrest which he navigated with sensitivity and sympathy), he was appointed to the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, a post he held till his retirement in 1993. At Southampton, where he was my colleague and friend, he led with even-handed and even-tempered judiciousness, supporting and encouraging the work of the History Department and medieval colleagues more widely, while at the same time continuing with his own extensive research as well as serving periodically as Head of Department and Dean of the Arts Faculty at a time of considerable pressures, and developing Faculty ties with the University of Hamburg where he was a visiting lecturer. Colin’s first article, published in 1969, was literally parochial, a study of parishes in rural Lincolnshire, his last book, published in 2005, The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West: from the Beginning to 1600 examines the function of the Sepulchre in medieval Christian, and specifically as developed in Crusading, ideology and its reinterpretations in the light of changing political realities. It also reflects Colin’s abiding interests both in Crusading history, and that of chivalry and medieval College Record 2022 | The Queen’s College 119
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